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  • Amen to daat: on the foundations of Jewish epistemology

  • Samuel Lebens
  • Journal:
    Religious Studies / Volume 59 / Issue 3 / September 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 December 2021, pp. 465-478
    Print publication:
    September 2023
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  • I argue that the Hebrew Bible adopts a non-doxastic account of propositional faith. In coming to this conclusion, we shall discover that Biblical Hebrew has no word for belief. What ramifications might this have had for biblical and Jewish epistemology? I begin to trace the sort of epistemic norms that might emerge from an epistemology that approaches knowledge by thinking about faith, rather than belief.

  • Chapter 6 - His Existence Is Essentiality

  • from Part III - The Creator
  • Edited by Daniel Frank, Purdue University, Indiana, Aaron Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book:
    Maimonides' <I>Guide of the Perplexed</I>
    Published online:
    18 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 102-124

  • Summary

    Maimonides famously says some rather radical things about God – radical even by philosophical standards – both about what God is like “in Himself” and about God’s relationship with the created universe. Maimonides’ most detailed and sustained presentation of these radical ideas is in his discussion of divine attributes in chapters 50–70 of the Guide. Indeed, it seems evident that Maimonides’ point in that section is to make plain these radical ideas. To put matters rather simply and straightforwardly, the radical ideas are these: Strictly speaking, God shares nothing substantive in common with created beings, neither existence nor life nor power nor knowledge. Indeed, strictly speaking, God has no intrinsic nature at all, no attributes at all, and stands in no relations whatsoever to the created universe – save for negative attributes and attributes of action. Even speaking strictly, God does have negative attributes and does stand in whatever relations to the created universe are entailed by His having attributes of action.